Dan Neel

Dan Neel is an award-winning journalist who has covered technology trends and best practices for over 15 years working with leading technology publications like Infoworld, CRN, VARbusiness and Investment Management Weekly. He led the direction of technology channel content at United Business Media, and is the recipient of 9 industry awards, including Best News Story for 2000 from the American Society of Business Press Editors.

When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a
cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the
way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security
issues.
The solution, powered by Rapid7 scanning technology, was to deliver a "pure"
cloud-based IT security monitoring and compliance management product that
worked in real time without requiring any hardware, "a first of its kind
solution," say the vendors.
Called Aegify, the technology delivers Security Posture Management (SPM),
which first measures the security status of all assets within a network, then
delivers a report that can be used to remediate problems, strengthen
security, and create and manage compliance policies. It leverages the
compliance and security engine of eGestalt's SecureGRC (governance, risk
management and complian... (more)